Animated Anthropomorphic Anthracite

vfx · Dec 11, 2008

This is looks like it came from the Onion or Saturday Night Live but it's the real thing. As you watch the Clean Coal Carolers think of the failed auditioners that were thrown in the furnace.

Give the gift of Asthma

Some commentary here.

You can even go the critter's Facebook page and give your thoughts.

graham · Dec 11, 2008

This is the best thing I have seen all Season! I will be sure to email to all my friends!

vfx · Dec 12, 2008

AWWwwww.

Update: It's been pulled down. If you had a chance to go to the site(s) you would have seen that 98 percent of the comments were ripping them to shreads.

The sites"content" had gone viral --in the green community. :tongue:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/clean-coal-carolers-gone.php

TEG · Dec 19, 2008

In case you missed it:

vfx · Dec 23, 2008

Funny cause it true.

graham · Dec 23, 2008

Hee! That is funny! :biggrin:

just-an-allusion · Dec 24, 2008

ROFL, but in a sad, depressed sort of way.

Speaking of the oxymoron that is the embodiment of the "clean coal" issue:

Spill dwarfs Exxon Valdez

Cleanergy.org - Renewable Energy & CleanTech - Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Hydro, Wind: This is "Clean Coal": Massive Coal Sludge Spill Dwarfs Exxon Valdez Disaster

500 million gallons of waste

Tennessee sludge spill runs over homes, water - CNN.com

Buries 400 acres

Tennessee Valley Coal Ash Spill Buries 400 Acres | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth

just-an-allusion · Dec 30, 2008

It is worth noting that the TVA has recently tripled spill estimate to 5.4M cubic yards of coal ash...that's over 1 billion gallons...Again, the Exxon spill was only 11 million. This is now being considered as one of the, if not the, worst environmental disaster of it's kind in the US.

www.tennessean.com | Nashville Get Informed | The Tennessean

p.s. Given the recent (for lack of a better word) animosity that I've encountered from certain member(s), I am curious just how relevant my contribution to this thread is considered to the subject at hand"?"

vfx · May 10, 2009

More music from the Coal industry:

Coal is West Virginia Ringtones
West Virginia Coal Association - Coal is West Virginia Ringtones

vfx · Aug 28, 2009

Coal's latest campaign is The Faces Of Coal As you can see, "FACES" is the "Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security".

It's a supposedly grass roots organization with pictures of it's members doing things that people do because Coal makes them safe and secure.

Grist

The “faces” shown on the group’s website include a smiling flower vender, a child playing golf, a family with a baby, and a grandmother waving an American flag. Shockingly, no coal miners, residents of homes destroyed by mountaintop-removal mining, or asthmatic children are featured.

FACES says it’s an “an alliance of people from all walks of life” united by their belief in the importance of coal. “In addition to keeping tens of thousands of people employed in good-paying jobs, coal is the lifeblood of our domestic energy supply, generating half the electricity consumed in the United States today,” says its website.

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Turns out the pictures are stock photos. Like this one from IStock Photos

Lots of good digging done:
Who are the faces behind FACES of Coal? | Grist
Daily Kos: FACES of Coal are iStockPhotos?!
I liked that

This is prohibited:

Use that depicts personal endorsement by model

See here.

They are operating on a fine line here. I think I'll let the owners of the images know and they can decide if the images are being used correctly.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/27/faces-of-adfero/
Outed! FACES of Coal Are Just Stock Photos : TreeHugger

I suppose next we will hear from a least one of the models speaking out against Coal.

vfx · Dec 27, 2009

YouTube - Coal

Voted best green video of the year:
YouTube - Get clean coal clean! (NEW Air Freshener)

vfx · Feb 3, 2010

company told to stop using Dr. Seuss' 'Lorax' in name

Coal Company tries to be cute.

Mass. company told to stop using Dr. Seuss' 'Lorax' in name

LoraxAG is developing a "shovel-ready" coal gasification and chemical production facility to make fertilizer ...
Dr. Seuss Enterprises doesn't like it. They've sent the company a cease-and-desist letter demanding the stop using the name.

Don't bother visiting the Deadsite.

doug · Jul 1, 2011

Get 'em young!

Definitely worth the listen:
Living on Earth: Coal in the Classroom

The American Coal Foundation paid Scholastic to help produce and place in classrooms maps and worksheets called the “United States of Energy.” At first glance, it looks like an exploration of all sources of electricity. But much of the information comes from the National Mining Association, a coal-lobbying group. And these exercises for children subtly emphasize coal’s benefits.

The 1991 video, paid for by coal burning electric companies, claims, “Our planet is deficient in CO2, and a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations would be very beneficial.” (CEDAR Program)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnDgQfCSCcs

vfx · Jul 1, 2011

Guy with the hat is worse than bad

I'm in this one. At 1:20 seated on the right.

bonnie · Jul 1, 2011

"Coal is the Right Way" ... painful. I wimped out and stopped it about 30 seconds in. The dogs were whining.

doug · Jul 1, 2011

I couldn't watch the whole video either. But listen to or read the story at top of the post. It's a little worrisome that they're trying to indoctrinate kids.

Search

Animated Anthropomorphic Anthracite

vfx

Well-Known Member

graham

Active Member

vfx

Well-Known Member

TEG

Teslafanatic

vfx

Well-Known Member

graham

Active Member

just-an-allusion

Banned

just-an-allusion

Banned

vfx

Well-Known Member

vfx

Well-Known Member

vfx

Well-Known Member

vfx

Well-Known Member

doug

Administrator / Head Moderator

vfx

Well-Known Member

bonnie

I play a nice person on twitter.

doug

Administrator / Head Moderator

Similar threads